Smoke ventilation systems are there to protect your staff, customers and property, making them a crucial part of a building's fire safety...

Fire safety is the set of practices intended to reduce the destruction caused by fire. Fire security measures include those that are...

Another fire breaks out just a couple of weeks after the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg fire that forced the hospital...

We are once again reminded of the devastating destructive Force of a Wildfire, as the hills and forest around table mountain continues to...

Few things are as terrifying as an out-of-control fire, and despite all the advances in technology and literal hundreds of regulations...

In a perfect world we would always be able to prevent a fire emergency rather than actually fight a fire. Unfortunately fire prevention...

A liquid flammable room correctly is a designated room where solvents, fuels and other flammable liquids are properly stored, in either a...

Fire dampers are detection devices with fire rated shutters that can slam shut when excessive heat is detected. These devices are placed...

A fire blanket is a flexible sheet of material usually constructed with wool and fiberglass layers that is uniquely designed to smother a...

A mezzanine floor is typically built between two floors, or as in many commercial and industrial buildings as an intermediate level,...

You might be wondering what the basic principles of smokes extraction is and how and why these principles are implemented. Having a fire...

A fire breaks out. Within a couple of seconds, the building fills with smoke. The main goal of smoke extraction is to facilitate a safe...

Airport Steel was established in 1999 as a steel supplier, manufacturer and installer. On the 27th of January, slightly before 6 pm a...

Fire doors have fire-resistance ratings that hold back smoke and fire, and allows for a building to be compartmentalized, intentionally...

To ensure that your smoke ventilation systems function properly in emergency cases, maintenance will need to be an absolute priority....

A smoke baffle or curtain, is a sizeable, nonflammable static curtain that is hung firmly against a ceiling. Smoke baffles cordon off...

Mechanical Smoke Extraction is carefully designed to ensure that in the event of a fire, smoke is extracted and removed from the...

A mechanical fusible link is a device consisting of two strips of metal soldered together with a fusible alloy that is designed to melt...

The photos below are typical examples of none compliant ventilation systems. All of these vents have been closed of either permanently...

Smoke baffles must be fire-resistant for at least one hour and can help give building occupants time to exit a building during a fire....